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According to changes in our Constitutional Amendments, every citizen of Kazakhstan needs to register his (her) mob phone to its operator. Authorities said its nat security concerns, but some experts say its political concern. So, what is behind the reform?

Kazakh Senate speaker Kassym Jomart Tokayev intrigued people of Kazakhstan when he was interviewed by BBC’s Stephen Sackur for HARDTalk.

A British journalist asked about one ruling party system in Kazakhstan,Expand text… “Democratic choice of Kazakhstan”, corruption, open economy, oligarchs, the role of Russian language in Kazakh society, Chinese investments etc. But, the most of the readers were reacted to his response about the probability of running a Presidential election in 2020.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev: I don’t believe that Nazarbayev will go to presidential election in 2020

What is going to happen when succession time comes?

First of all, I should mention that President Nazarbayev was elected until 2020.Expand text… Whether he will be reelected once again or not. It’s up to him.

If my mathematics is correct, he will 80 by that time. The Constitution says he is the founder of the nation. And he can run as many time as he wants, right?

I don’t believe that President Nazarbayev will go to presidential elections in 2020. I don’t believe because he is a very wise man and he is absolutely reasonable. And I think that we shall have presidential elections with other candidates except for President Nazarbayev.

North Korea seemed to be an aggressor to start the III World War a few months ago. Now, it transformed its policy for better negotiations with capitalistic countries. So, what was the reason for flipping up decision?